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Charleston Historic Walking Tours

January 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

One of the best ways to get acquainted with a city is to take a walking tour. Not only do the guides take you to the relevant sites, but they also provide an in-depth look into the history. We have taken multiple walking tours of Charleston through our many visits to this beautiful city. This […]

Filed Under: Charleston, Cities, Sightseeing, South Carolina Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, Charles Town, Gullah, history, Philip Simmons, walking tour

Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley and the Mina’s Basin

December 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Our next stop in Nova Scotia was the Annapolis Valley, a 150 km-long valley that runs along the Mina’s Basin, an estuary that is separated from the body of the Bay of Fundy by the mountainous Cape Blomidon. The region is notable for a number of reasons, including; It’s geology and microclimate, which makes it […]

Filed Under: Beaches & Coasts, Dining, Featured-Trips, Nature & Hiking, Nova Scotia, Restaurants, Sightseeing, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: history, nature, Nova Scotia, restaurants, wine

DC Walking Tours

July 15, 2013 Leave a Comment

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We have done guided tours of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Pentagon. this trip, we were looking forward to a few others–Georgetown, the State Department’s Diplomatic reception rooms, and especially the White House. We had, for the first time, submitted an application for a White House tour in plenty of […]

Filed Under: Cities, Featured-City, Sightseeing, Washington, D.C. Tagged With: Architecture, history, walking tour, Washington D.C.

Arlington National Cemetery

December 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Arlington National Cemetery We began this trip with a brief stop at some of the primary visitor stops at Arlington National Cemetery. After a brief orientation at the Visitor Center and walking through the rows upon rows of precisely placed headstones and manicured gravesites, we took an easy half-mile walk to the Kennedy Family gravesite […]

Filed Under: Cities, Featured-City, Sightseeing, Washington, D.C. Tagged With: Alexandria, art, history, restaurants, Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. Museums

September 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Washington is the ultimate museum city. Not only does it have a huge number of absolutely world-class museums, but it has some that are absolutely unique (such as it’s Museum of American History (aka, “the Nation’s Attic), but many of these museums are absolutely FREE. Not surprisingly, we spend much of our DC time in […]

Filed Under: Cities, Museums, Sightseeing, Washington, D.C. Tagged With: art, history, museums, Washington D.C.

Deadwood: Legend and Reality in the Town that Gambling Built, and Rebuilt

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Deadwood South Dakota is a beautifully restored National Historic Site. It is fun, historically fascinating and located in the beautifully scenic and activity-rich Black Hills (see our August 10 blog) and within easy driving distance of a number of interesting day-trips (in our August 31 blog). It is also a place of legend, and of a […]

Filed Under: Cities, Featured-City, South Dakota Tagged With: Deadwood, history, South Dakota

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